glaçure
\ɡla.syʁ\
The verdict
“glaçure” is uncommon French (frequency #96,968 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,968
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de recouvrir les poteries d’un enduit qui au feu doit se vitrifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glacure · glaçure · French
glaçure · rank #96,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,968
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glandouille
Nearest frequency peer: glandouille (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « glaçure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gila
gila
3,037 corpus weight
- ging
ging
3,036 corpus weight
- glandouille
glandouille
3,034 corpus weight
- glaçure
glaçure
3,033 corpus weight
- glissaient
glissaient
3,032 corpus weight
- gloser
gloser
3,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glaçure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaçure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡla.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glaçure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glaçure is uncommon French at frequency #96,968 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡla.syʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for glaçure, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is glaçure, spelled G-L-A-Ç-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Action de recouvrir les poteries d’un enduit qui au feu doit se vitrifier.
- 2Enduit que le potier applique sur les céramiques avant la cuisson. Ce vernis les rend imperméables et leur donne de la brillance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glaçure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très tôt les Égyptiens surent fabriquer des verres. L’origine de ce matériau semble avoir été dans les glaçures recouvrant les poteries pour les rendre imperméables et les décorer.
Une révolution s’opère avec la faïence : une terre couverte d’une glaçure à base d’étain, qui lui confère lumière et douceur, et permet des décors raffinés.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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